Martha Beck Quotes

Cheerfully fessing up to our failures turns crazy mind off, humility and compassion on. I learned this in a karate dojo that had a strange tradition. Everyone there loved recounting failure stories, and after an evening of smacking one another, we'd sit and have a beer while the students swapped tales of martial arts disaster.

Martha Beck

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 29, 1962

Topics

FailureCompassionHumilityBeer

I was maybe one of two black kids in the drama department. It was, 'Well, you can't play this role because that guy has a white girlfriend or a white cousin or whatever.'

Joe Morton

BlackYouWhiteDramaPlayWhatever

Under the AHP approach, the average small business might be able to offer their employees one or two insurance plans, and that employee of the small business would have no idea whether their doctor was going to be a apart of one of those plans.

Jim Cooper

BusinessDoctorSmallEmployeesTwo

I always tell writers that it's good to have an area of expertise. It's a really practical answer, I know, but know about science or about sports or about medicine, so you can work as a science writer or a sports writer. Don't just know about yourself.

Meghan Daum

WorkGoodScienceSportsYourself

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

Maya Angelou

OpportunityScarcityBecauseMost

People don't live in Austin to work, they work to live there.

Robert Rodriguez

WorkLivePeopleAustin

Young women today, as in the fifties, find themselves entering the big world and having to make choices.

Robert Gottlieb

WomenTodayWorldChoicesFindBig

The sophisticates of Java, the traders of Sumatra, the peasants from the outer islands found no common ground. During siesta time from one to five, the Islamic group met separately, the Nationalist group met separately, the Federalist and Unitarians met separately.

Sukarno

TimeGroupGroundCommonFiveFound

Auditioning is the most terrifying thing I've ever done. There must have been four or five of them where I completely froze up and walked out of the room. My palms get sweaty just thinking about it.

Trevor Donovan

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I always figure from the cradle to the grave, we all have our individual journeys, and maybe my journey was a positive one and I accomplished certain things without stepping on too many toes.

Robert Duvall

PositiveJourneySteppingWithout

I gave her life, I can take life away.

Mary Beth Whitehead

LifeI CanTakeHerAwayGave

Always do something different from the others.

Michele Ferrero

OthersAlwaysSomethingDifferent

If my kid couldn't draw I'd make sure that my kitchen magnets didn't work.

Mitch Hedberg

WorkKitchenKidSureMakeDraw

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